The main reason I'm an atheist

[Brian37]

People claim the same thing about Jesus, therefore Jesus is God.  You can't both be correct.  The existence of a myth about someone, believed by millions of people, is no evidence that the myth is a true story.  The Indian subcontinent is filled with all sorts of magical stories.  You don't believe all of them.  Why believe these particular stories?  You've given no good reason to believe them.  You'll accept the popularity and ubiquity of stories as evidence for Shiva's acts, but you don't accept the existence of physical flutes as evidence that ancient Chinese had music.  That's a double standard and an irrational stance.  You believe the myths about Shiva because it is part of the legendary basis of Yoga.  You believe the myths because you believe in Yoga.  That's dogmatic belief.

Yog, you are running too fast with your fantasy.  
Slow down and think instead.  
I never said that those instruments were not capable of producing sound.
You are confusing sound with real music.
I can produce sound with my seashells but that is not music created with the 7 notes.
Capish? (right?)

As far as believing in Shiva and not in today Indian religions and culture that is because
Shiva teaching create progress and I can feel it while today Indian culture and religions only create misery, corruption and dogma.  

Take the caste system.
It is absurd and lead to suffering but that is part of the Indian way of doing things.
Shiva was totally against the caste system.
Strange enough these Hindus fanatics thinks that it come from Shiva.

Morso in the west, we think the religions of Asia/Orient and India are better. No, it only seems that way because their is an uneasy truce going on currently. There is not one religion or era in history where the planet has not had human divisions.

ALL those religions, both polytheism and monotheism were still concocted by humans in an age of tribalism and superstition. 

Now I cannot stress this enough, you cant force 7 billion humans not to believe, that is simply impossible and if you tried to force any religion out of existence you'd have to become a monster to do it. But intellectually nobody should ever be afraid of challenging any religious claim or the social norms of any society. 

Hinduism is just as much a fantasy and even Buddhism, like Jesus and Christianity, was marketed as a rejection of the religion it was spawned from. Humans make up all religions, and they are nothing more than the placebos we event to give ourselves a sense of false comfort. You cant rid the world of it, but it is important to challenge people to make their priorities common law, not common religion. Religion causes tribalism and there is no polite way to put it. You can only manage it with the idea that we are all capable of getting along when we chose, and we can all agree to be non violent, even when someone offends us.